Principal Investigator

Hussein Hoteit

Associate Professor​
Physical Science and Engineering Division
Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering (ERPE)

Research Interests: Numerical analysis, Fluid mechanics

Research Scientists

Muhammad Ali, Ph.D.

Research Scientist - Hoteit Group

Research Interests: Gas Geo-storage (H2 and CO2), Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery, Multi-phase Flow Through Porous Media, Wettability and Interfacial Phenomena, Unconventionals (Gas hydrates, Coal, Shale), Nanomaterials, Drilling Fluid Rheology, Reservoir Characterization

Mouadh Addassi, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: CO2 sequestration, Mineral characterization, Carbon Mineralization, Reactive transport modeling

Postdoctoral Fellows

Manojkumar Gudala

Post-doctoral fellow

Research Interests: Mathematical and numerical modeling, Flow through porous and fracture media, Geothermal reservoir modeling (THM modeling), Machine Learning, Deep learning

Narendra Kumar Rawat

Post-doctoral fellow

Research Interests: Enhanced oil recovery, CO2 Geo-sequestration, Interfacial phenomenon (Surfactants, Polymers, Nanoparticles), Flow through Porous Media

PhD Students

Yongchun Zhu

PhD Student

Research Interests: oil-gas field development, gas injection miscible displacement, microfluidic displacement experiment

Yina Liu

PhD Student

Research Interests: Reservoir simulation, multi-physics coupling simulation, Machine Learning

Fawaz Alboghail

PhD Student

Research Interests: ·       Petro-physics, Reservoir Characterization, CO2 sequestration

Marwan Almulhim

PhD Student

Norah Aljeban

PhD Student

HAMOUD ALQAHTANI

PhD student

Research Interests: Carbon capture and Storage, CCS, Enhanced oil recovery, EOR, Simulation, Experimental design

Lingai GUO

Ph.D. student

Research Interests: Hydro-mechanical process, numerical modeling, mixed finite element method, non-conforming method, hydraulic fracturing

Abdulwahab Alqahtani

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Enhanced oil recovery, AI

Abdullah Al Omier

PhD student – Chemical Engineering (CE) Program

Research Interests: enhanced gas recovery, gas condensate dropout, phase change behavior, molecular diffusion modeling, EOS, Multiphase flow in porous media, microfluidics

Abdirizak Omar

Ph.D. Student -ERPE Program

Research Interests: CO2 storage, Reactive transport modeling, CO2 EOR

Miguel Corrales

Ph.D. Student -ERPE Program

Research Interests: Reservoir Engineering, Reservoir simulation, CO2 sequestration

Amer Alanazi

Ph.D. Student -ERPE Program

Research Interests: Chemical enhanced oil recovery, CO2 EOR, Micromodels, Core flooding experiments, Reservoir & Simulation modelling

Hussain Aldaif

Ph.D. Student - ERPE Program​​

Research Interests: CO2 injection, Enhanced oil recovery, Tight reservoirs, fractured reservoirs, streamline, CRM

Evgeny Ugolkov

MS Student -ERPE Program

Research Interests: Reservoir Engineering

Mutaz Alsubhi

PhD Student - ERPE Program- Hoteit Group

Research Interests: Reservoir Engineering, Enhanced oil recovery

Enoc Basilio

PhD student, ERPE -program

Research Interests: Multiphase flow in porous media, Experimental design, Improved oil recovery, Carbon capture and sequestration, Geothermal energy

Masters Students

Akshith Suresh

Master Student

Research Interests: Reservoir Engineering, Drilling Engineering, Production Engineering & Optimization, Carbon capture and Storage, Geothermal reservoir modeling (THM modeling), Petrology

Zakaria Alghamdi

Master Student

Research Interests: Carbon capture and Storage, Energy efficiency, Sustainable Energy, Flow assurance, Multiphase flow

Rayhan Nugroho

MS student

Research Interests: Geomodelling, Carbon Sequestration, Structural Geology

Ali Alabdrabulrasul

Masters Student

Research Interests: fluid flow in porous media, acid stimulation, Reservoir simulation, CO2 sequestration, physics-informed neutral networks, Artificial intelligence application in subsurface porous media, Mathematical methods in subsurface engineering

Faris Alotaibi

Master Student

Mariia Solodiankina

Master Student

Research Interests: Modeling, Enhanced oil recovery, Reservoir Engineering

Mauricio Lozano

MS/PhD Student in Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering

Research Interests: Reservoir modeling, Enhanced oil recovery, Energy Transition, CO2 storage

Simon Zougheib

MS/PhD Student

Research Interests: Reservoir & Simulation modelling, Predicting & Enhancing Production, IOR/EOR

Martin Hoecherl

MS Student

Research Interests: Dilational Interfacial Rheology under elevated pressure, supercritical CO2, material properties under process conditions, in-situ foam stability

Ali Alhubail

​MS Student - ERPE - Hoteit Group

Research Interests: Production Engineering, Production Optimization, Well Completion, High power laser, EM Waves-Rock Interaction, Unconventional Stimulation Techniques

Visiting/Intern student

Sitti Nur Asnin

Visiting student

Research Interests: Geochemistry, pressure transient analysis, CO2 storage, Geothermal

Jin Shu

Visiting Student

Research Interests: wellbore - reservoir coupling models, semi-analytical models, data-driven proxy models, optimization algorithm, intelligence control mechanism

Visiting Faculty

Eric Oelkers

Visiting Professor - Professor of Geochemistry

Research Interests: Carbon Storage, Experimental Geochemistry, Mineral Reactivity, Mineral-Fluid Interactions, Reactive Transport Modelling